Java as an Internet Language

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Java is an object oriented language and a very simple language. Because it has no space for complexities. At the initial stages of its development it was called as OAK. OAK was designed for handling set up boxes and devices. But later new features were ad

Java as an Internet Language

Java is an object oriented language and a very simple language.
Because it has no space for complexities. At the initial stages of its
development it was called as OAK. OAK was designed for handling set up boxes and
devices. But later new features were added to it and it was renamed as Java.
Java became a general purpose language that had many features to support it as
the internet language. Few of the features that favors it to be an internet
language are:

Cross Platform Compatibility: The java
source files (java files with .java extension) after compilation generates the
bytecode (the files with .class extension) which is further converted into the
machine code by the interpreter. The byte code once generated can execute on any
machine having a JVM. Every operating system has it's unique Java Virtual
Machine (JVM) and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).

Support to Internet Protocols: Java has a rich
variety of classes that abstracts the Internet protocols like HTTP , FTP, IP,
TCP-IP, SMTP, DNS etc .

Support to HTML: Most of the programming
languages that are used for web application uses the html pages as a view to
interact with the user. Java programming language provide it's support to html.
For example. Recently the extension package jipxhtml is developed in java
to parse and create the html 4.0 documents.

Support to Java Reflection APIs: To map the functionalities,
Java Reflection APIs provides the mechanism to retrieve the values from
respective fields and accordingly creates the java objects. These objects
enables to invoke methods to achieve the desired functionality.

Support to XML parsing: Java has JAXP-APIs
to read the xml data and create the xml document using different xml parsers
like DOM and SAX. These APIs provides mechanism to share data among different
applications over the internet.

Support to Web Services : Java has a rich
variety of APIs to use xml technology in diverse applications that
supports N-Tiered Enterprise applications over the internet. Features like
JAXB , JAXM, JAX-RPC , JAXR etc enables to implement web services in java
applications. It makes java a most suited internet language.

Support to java enabled Mobile devices: Java
programming language is made in such a way so that it is compatible with mobile
devices also. Java language also works with any java enabled mobile devices that
support MIDP 1.0/2.0 including the symbian OS mobile devices.

Support to Personal Digital Assistants: Java
language is compatible with Personal Java 1.1 such as chaiVM, Jeode, CrEME, and
JV-Lite2 or with all the later version and it also support PDAs like HP/Compaq,
iPAQ, Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket Loox and SimPad, HHP, NEC, Samsung, Sharp Electronics, Toshiba, psion m5, and any other device with Windows CE/Pocket PC 2002/2003/2005).